‘I found a way to copy Starbucks' iced pistachio latte recipe for less than £1'
Ever since Dubai chocolate hit our social media feeds, we've been going crazy for all things pistachio – and retailer have been keeping up, launching everything from ice cream to Easter eggs flavoured with the green nut. This includes Starbucks, who launched a new pistachio latte and ice latte recipe at the beginning of this year. It's since come of the menu, but I've found a way to recreate if yourself – and for a whole lot less money.
If you have a Nespresso machine, you'll want to try the brand's new limited-edition Pistachio Vanilla Flavour Over Ice original and Vertuo pods, which gives a sweet, moreish twist to your usual coffee.
I have a Nespresso Vertuo machine so I first tried the pistachio Vertuo pod simply over ice, topped up with a little oat milk. At £7.50 for a sleeve of 10 pods (so 75p per cup), plus I worked out the rough cost of the amount of oat milk I used (25p), so already you're got yourself a tasty summer drink for less than a quarter of the price of the Starbucks one, which had a starting price of £4.70. You could also make this even cheaper by using original capsules (55p each) and dairy milk.
I'm not normally a fan of flavoured coffee but I found this delicious; not as sugary sweet as some of them. However, I wanted to up the pistachio sensation ever further, so I copied Nespresso's iced pistachio vanilla latte recipe – and it took it to another level.
The first step was to spread a little pistachio paste around my Nespresso tumbler; I bought this one from Waitrose, and it was hard to resist eating it by the spoonful out of the jar.
Next up was lots of ice and a splash of oat milk (I bulk buy this one from Amazon), but using the Aeroccino to froth up some more. Once in the glass, the drink was finished with an 80ml serving of the pistachio Vertuo coffee pod, and – wow – what a drink.
Of course, to use Nespresso's pistachio pods you will first need one of their coffee machines; the original machines are hard to come by nowadays but the Vertuo is almost always hugely reduced on Amazon – at the time of writing the Vertuo Pop is down from £107.99 to £59. I think this is good value for the quality of coffee it makes, but if you like you can read my full review here before you decide. The Aeroccino will also set you back £79, but I think that this step could be easily skipped.
To pair with your new favourite summer drink, go for Lindt LINDOR Pistachio Milk Chocolate Truffles, £13 for two boxes, and if you really can't get enough of the nut, Kayali also does a pistachio perfume: Yum Pistachio Gelato 33 Eau de Parfum Intense, from £28.
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